It’s December! Lots of things are published this time of year, like developer advent calendars and organizations reflecting on the past year. We have even our own end-of-year series where we asked folks what they learned in 2020. But we …
I remember sitting in the back seat of our family’s Subaru station wagon. I was six and this was long before child carseats were a thing. My dad was at the wheel and my mom played 20 Questions with me …
Spoiler alert: There is no support for it yet. But it is defined in the Media Queries Level 5 spec that includes other recent, but more familiar user preference features, like prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion.
The Polypane blog goes into …
The text-combine-upright CSS property combines characters into the space of one character. The spec calls this “horizontal-in-vertical” composition which is a nice way of describing the use case: situations where you may need some characters in a vertical writing mode …
There’s a small line in the changelog that is is big news for CSS:
We’ve added support for CSS Conic Gradients (bug 1632351) and (bug 1175958).
🎉🎉🎉
Conic gradients are circular, just like their radial counterpart, but place color …
Like how you can use the background-color property in CSS to declare a solid color background, you can use the background-image property not only to declare image files as backgrounds but gradients as well. Using CSS gradients is better for …
Just a little post I wrote up over at The Events Calendar blog. The idea is that a set of blocks can be grouped together in WordPress, then registered in a register_block_pattern() function that makes the group available to use …
The CSS line-break property defines how strictly to enforce rules for wrapping text wrapping on new lines, particularly when working with symbols and punctuations in Chinese, Japanese or Korean (CJK) writing systems. It is included in the CSS Text Module …
Here’s a fun page coming from secretGeek.net. You don’t normally think “fun” with brutalist minimalism but the CSS trickery that makes it work on this page is certainly that.…
Last year’s State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There’s the quick adoption of features, like calc() and CSS custom properties. There’s also the overwhelming opinion that CSS is fun to write even as we see a growing reliance …
A little while back we shared the news that WooCommerce shipped a beta payments feature as part of its 4.0 release. It’s a free plugin with no monthly costs or setup fees. You only pay when you make a sale.…
